Concert Review

Concert Review 3 The concert review I am writing about is An American In Paris. An American In Paris was composed by George Gershwin in 1928. This specific performance that we watched in class was performed by Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. This performance was very long and had many different parts to it. Amazingly this performance only have 1 movement, but a lot of sections. There were also many different textures. This song had it all. This is a modern era piece, and being that it of course incorporated brass. With the different amounts of instruments playing at the same time I would say this piece is blatantly homophonic. I would guess that most modern pieces would have to be homophonic with the amount of instruments that are involved, it would be hard for them not to be. As music as evolved through time more trends have been discovered thus making music much more complicated, but in the same time making it more appreciable. This piece had a lot of emotion in it, the title is “An American In Paris”. I would have to say that the song does a good job of depicting what it would be like to be in a unknown surrounding that is so massive. To me this song could almost be classified as a short story with the journey it takes you through. I really appreciated this song just because of the sheer effort that was put into it. I look forward to the last concert review of the year.