Concert

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The concert performed April 24th, 2001 in Baldwin Auditorium was one of the most remarkable I have attended. The title “Classical Meets Jazz V” drew my attention because I have studied that Jazz has a strong parallel with Baroque, but not with the classical period due to its counterpoint and layering. I thought that it would be a mixture of them, but I later found out that each piece performed was a style of its own.
It all started with Andrea Adamcová playing the piano. She started playing a few soft notes with her left hand and suddenly she added some scattered notes with her other hand. The rhythm was starting to gain pace and you could hear the counterpoint that kept a constant tempo. This piece was clearly Jazz. After the second section of the tune was stated, it was then followed by the return of the first one. You could hear some dissonance. There was a point in which the texture became homophonic in a slow tempo, which appealed to my senses as sad. The final section of Children’s Songs by Chick Corea starts very fast in an andante fashion. It keeps its speed through the whole piece. Then another melody is added and repeated again.
The performance of Andrea struck me in the sense that it seemed that she really was into the music. I noticed this by her body language and the way she let the music flow through her arms, hands, fingertips, keyboard, strings and finally to the ears of the listeners. The second piece played by her was by Alberto Ginastera, which was an Argentinean composer known for making music that combines folk Argentine rhythms and colors with modern composing techniques. What I could notice from this piece was an exhilarating rhythmic energy and an hallucinatory atmosphere. The Prelude seemed to have some dissonant, fast, high-pitched notes. Another thing that could be appreciated was the motoric rhythm, which presented both the basic pulse and its subdivision. The Creole dance was a representation of ...