Fire Pink Trio Analysis

Fire Pink Trio The Fire Pink Trio introduced its 2017 concept on a Thursday evening, April 20,2017 at the University of Delaware. The Fire Pink Trio consisted of three females that played three different instrument. Debra Reuter-Pivetta played the flute, Sheila Browne played the viola and Jacquelyn Bartlett who I believe was the best out of all three played the harp. Named after the beautiful North American wildflower that covers the mountains in late Spring, Fire Pinks resemble the strokes of a painter’s brush, a symbol of creativity and fresh, new ideas to the members of the trio. Fire is the energy that the trio felt upon playing together for the first time.
Pink symbolizes their compatibility.
The trip up there was exciting part of this whole experience because I was in the car with three of my friends and we were jamming to music the whole ride there. We left pretty early so we can go site seeing before we even saw the concept. The university was very beautiful and the campus was big, perhaps too big for my liking. The musical concept was held in an auditorium called
Gore Recital Hall. The setting was great, it was a decent size room with the harp the center of focus with how massive it was and the strings very colorful. The lights were dim and the spotlight was put upon the stage. As you look around your surrounding it happened to be quite an older audience.
Elegaic Trio was the first song composed by Arnold Bax. Arnold Bax was born in London. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music. Of independent means, he never needed to teach or conduct. He was a fine pianist but his main interests were composing music and poetry. His strong affinity for Ireland led him to spend considerable time in that country which influenced his outlook and music. The 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland and its brutal suppression, which included the execution of several of his friends, was to have a profound influence upon him. He is remembered mostly for his orchestral compositions but he wrote a great deal of chamber music. His music shows many influences, perhaps the strongest of which is impressionism. The Elegiac Trio, composed in the Spring of 1916, was clearly meant as a memorial to the friends he had lost in the Rising (Edition Silvertrust). I believe the song was broken into two sections. The first section of the music is dreamy and reflective. It started off with the flute and viola playing a long melodies and then followed by the harp. The second section was slower This had a little water fall sound to it, it was soothing and the tempo was lento, and made it hard for the audience to stay awake for it.
The other song the put me off was the the garten von freuden und traurigkeiten (Garden of Joy and Sorrows) composed by Sofia Guabaidulina.
Sofia Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol in the Tatar Republic of the Soviet Union in 1931. The garden of joy and sorrow is a one-movement piece for harp, flute and viola. It was conceived under the strong influence of two directly contradictory literary phenomena: 1) the work “Sayat-Nova” by Iv Oganov (Moscow), about the famous Eastern story-teller and singer, and 2) verses by the 20th century German poet Francisco Tanzer. Vivid Eastern color was counterposed to a typically Western consciousness. But both of these works had significant inner similarities: their contemplativeness and refinement. (Schrimer). This song was stranger to me because the harpist started playing with a garden tool and it made weird sounds like they didn’t know what they were
doing.
Music a big aspect of my life, I listen to music everyday for about sevens hours. I came realize that classical music isn’t for me. Although it was an exciting trip to go and watch it, I only talk about this two song because after a while I just started to fade out of it and couldn’t pay attention anymore. I feel this genre of music is for the older generation, and I could tell from the amount people at the concept.