Music Western Civilization

For our class project I decided to attend a concert at Bargemusic, a floating concert hall in Brooklyn,I chose is because I thought it would be cool to be on a boat for a concert. This concert will be on Friday November 30th at 8 pm. I will focus on the two masterwork series they will be performing. The first one is Takemitsu Quatrain II, Between Tides and the second one is Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time. There will be a trio with a cello, violin, piano, and clarinet. This seems very interesting and I review photos on this venue. It has a very nice view and it looks very formal. I plan to focus on both pieces I will listen to both of them on YouTube and they are both interesting find it interesting how a piano,cello,clarinet and a violin can come together to make a piece. Even though this is not my type of music I will try to enjoy this piece.
So I watched Messiaens piece on youtube and judging from the videos this piece has eight movements. The first movement is called liturgy of crystal. This piece has a soft feel to it. But to me its kind of disproportional. The piano plays very soft but not in a smooth melody. It seems like the pianist is just playing different notes that don’t go together. The violin plays in a high pitch. The dynamic level increases in this movement. The flute is very fortissimo. I feel like its leading on the other instuments because of how loud and the way it is playing. I can hardly hear the cello but I can see that the cello player is playing one long note at a time, very slowly and long. The second piece is called vocalize. It starts off dramatic with the piano. It looks like the pianist was banging on the piano. The violin and clarinet plays fast and very forte. The cello takes a rest. Then the violin plays very loud in a high pitch, followed by the cello, then the clarinet. They pause then the pianist interrupts the pause by hiting the keys on her piano hard from high to low. Suddenly the instruments all play a soft