MUL 1010
Professor John, Doe
20 Oct. 2013
Concert Review:
“The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra”
On October 19, 2013 I sought out to listen to some classical music for my review for class. It was a pleasure to have found the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra at the St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Oviedo, FL, a part of St. Luke’s concert series of 2013-14 that has been held in the last nineteen years here in Oviedo, FL. This free event that’s held each year at St. Luke church holds about three hundred people in there sanctuary, everything in the décor speak to your imagination Lutheran church. It was very nice it reminded me of a small concert hall. The orchestra fill the whole area were the choir usually sit. Christopher Wilkins, he conductor along within a full orchestra and Rimma Bergeron–Langlois the violinist, who all played four great suites from the genius of Georges Bizet, the piece from L’Arlesienne, Carmen suite, and Carmen fantasies, and Symphony in C’ that took you back in time. This classical music from the romantic era was breath taking. L’Arlesienne this first section was writing by Alphonse Daudet and composed by Bizet. The words L’Arlesienne translate “The Girl from Aries,” this was like a form of classical folk music. The conductor told the short story of the music, which is of the girl from Aries fall in love with a young peasant Frederi, who he later found out just before his wedding, that his girls has been infidelity. He goes crazy and kills himself. The first suite used a full symphony orchestra but without the chorus. The set opens with a strong, lively theme, which had Christmas theme played by violins. Afterwards, it’s continually by various sections. After reaching a high point, in this theme it fades away. The movements, resembles a minuet, while the thirds more emotional and low-key. The last movement features a preparing bell-tone pattern on the horns, mimicking a ringing of church bells. This rang of short solos, was intense