Vivaldi Four Seasons

Listening to music can be an inspiration, a motivation, or even a release. No two people have exactly the same taste in music. A decade seems like a small amount of time, however in the evolution of music, it could be a life time. Music divided by centuries can seem as different as night and day. However today music is often influenced and shaped by classical composers. Two such comparisons are Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Nickelback’s live concert performance of Animals, Woke up this Morning and Photograph.
I started with Antonio Vivaldi’s Spring performed by Itzhak Perlman and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Nodame2006). It is a very moving piece and very famous. The concert I chose was ten minutes and thirty-eight seconds
The music had refrains and musical pauses. The tempo was upbeat and the melodies both featured crescendos. However, the differences outweigh the similarities as Vivaldi’s Spring was one piece where Nickelback had to perform three songs to match length and composition. Also Spring played several soft slow melodies and Nickelback did not have a comparable part.
I immensely enjoyed both presentations. I chose Vivaldi and Nickelback because they are my favorite musicians of their genre. Antonio Vivaldi was introduced to me in high school by my Music History class. His famous Four Seasons has always been a point of joy for me while attending the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in the early 2000’s.
Nickelback became my favorite modern rock band while going through a break up in 2011. Their ‘Here and Now’ CD help me through many rough nights and inspired me to move on. I explored their music further and have found that there are tracks that I do not like and others that I love and play
Perlman’s concert featured seated, well dressed, and quiet people listening to the movement of the piece and Perlman never directly addresses the viewers. The Nickelback concert is completely different. The audience appears to be standing and are screaming and singing to the music. Chad Kroeger directly speaks to the onlookers, encouraging their participation. The Baroque period, between 1600 and 1750s, had yet another completely different audience. Most performances were private, not open to the public, or in churches. Towards the end of the baroque, operas and certain concerts opened to the public changing the source of income for musicians of the