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. You should certainly 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.
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?
