Introduction To Music – Report #6

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Term Paper Title	Introduction To Music – Report #6
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Introduction to Music – Report #6
Performance Information- Group #2
Date of Concert – Friday, November 20, 1998, 7:30p.m.
Type of Concert – Soloist Concert
Performer – Andrzej Grabiec, Violin
Accompanied by the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

* Concert Programs were provided *

List of Works Performed
1.     Mazur from Halka – Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)

2.     Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 8 – Mieczyslaw Karlowicz (1876-1909)

Allegro moderato
Romanza. Andante
Finale. Vivace assai
Andrzej Grabiec, Violin

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra performed renditions of great musical pieces composed by Polish composers of the 19th and 20th century.  The musical pieces were filled with vigor, emotion, and nationalistic themes.  The energy and excitement of the musical pieces was due to the excellent utilization of the orchestra.  The orchestra consisted of 23 violins, 9 violas, 9 cellos, 5 basses, 4 flutes, 4 oboes, 4 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 5 trumpets, 4 trombones, 1 tuba, 5 timpani/percussion instruments, 1 piano, and 1 harp.

Program Analysis
      The first solo piece performed by Andrzej Grabiec was Mieczyslaw Karlowicz’s Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 8.  Karlowicz never considered himself a nationalistic composer.  His concerto was composed at a time in his life when he began to defy and speak out against the narrow dependence of the Polish musical tradition and it’s national style (Information from Program notes).
Tchaikovsky had a major influence on Karlowicz’s passion for innovation as a Polish composer.  This influence is seen as Andrzej Grabiec began the opening motif of the first movement, which is reminiscent of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto  (Program Notes).  As the orchestra opened with this motif, in a moderate, forte tempo, the French horns took over and led the melody with ascending, disjunct arpeggios which changed from major to minor often with Karlowicz’s carefully placed accidentals.
As suddenly as the orchestra had risen to a fortissimo with the ascending winds, the orchestra completely subsided to the solo voice of the violin.  Grabiec introduces the first theme unaccompanied, playing disjunct ascending and descending multiple-stops with a medium range.
The first thing I noticed about Grabiec was his stage presence.  He was a tall, but stocky man with a bit of a belly.  However, he exuded a stately presence on stage with his straight posture and his semi-stern facial expressions.  As he began his unaccompan...

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