Concert Review Online Option #3
This is a performance of Pictures at an Exhibition. This work was written by Modest Mussorgsky as a piano solo, but later the composer Maurice Ravel transcribed it for orchestra, and the orchestral setting is very commonly heard. Some prefer the piano solo version, some prefer the orchestra version. Regardless, both settings are still very popular today. This is a video of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, under the direction of David Robertson, in 2014. Keep in mind that this is a young orchestra, and not adult professionals.
I have listed the times that each different movement takes place. For this paper, since the video is so short (a little over half an hour) your review will need to cover the entire concert, rather than only a few pieces as listed in the rubric. Again, I am amending what is written in the rubric… Your Concert Review needs to cover the entire performance, not just a few pieces from the performance. Describe how the musical elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony change between each movement.
Refer to the Concert Review Guidelines and Rubric, and the Supplemental Guidelines, which can be found in Blackboard.
Pictures at an Exhibition, composed by Modest Mussorgsky. Transcribed for orchestra by Maurice Ravel.
0:37: Promenade I
2:16: The Gnome
4:56: Promenade II
5:56: The Old Castle
10:30: Promenade III
11:02: Tuileries (Children’s quarrel after games)
12:13: Bydlo (Cattle)
14:53: Promenade IV
15:33: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
16:59: Samuel Goldenberg and the Schmuÿle
19:19: Limoges, the Market (The Great News)
20:48: Catacombs (Roman Tomb)
22:29: With the Dead in a Dead Language
24:30: The Hut on Hen’s Legs (Baba Yaga)
28:12: The Great Gate at Kiev
This is a performance of Pictures at an Exhibition. This work was written by Modest Mussorgsky as a piano solo, but later the composer Maurice Ravel transcribed it for orchestra, and the orchestral setting is very commonly heard. Some prefer the piano solo version, some prefer the orchestra version. Regardless, both settings are still very popular today. This is a video of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, under the direction of David Robertson, in 2014. Keep in mind that this is a young orchestra, and not adult professionals.
I have listed the times that each different movement takes place. For this paper, since the video is so short (a little over half an hour) your review will need to cover the entire concert, rather than only a few pieces as listed in the rubric. Again, I am amending what is written in the rubric… Your Concert Review needs to cover the entire performance, not just a few pieces from the performance. Describe how the musical elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony change between each movement.
Refer to the Concert Review Guidelines and Rubric, and the Supplemental Guidelines, which can be found in Blackboard.
Pictures at an Exhibition, composed by Modest Mussorgsky. Transcribed for orchestra by Maurice Ravel.
0:37: Promenade I
2:16: The Gnome
4:56: Promenade II
5:56: The Old Castle
10:30: Promenade III
11:02: Tuileries (Children’s quarrel after games)
12:13: Bydlo (Cattle)
14:53: Promenade IV
15:33: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
16:59: Samuel Goldenberg and the Schmuÿle
19:19: Limoges, the Market (The Great News)
20:48: Catacombs (Roman Tomb)
22:29: With the Dead in a Dead Language
24:30: The Hut on Hen’s Legs (Baba Yaga)
28:12: The Great Gate at Kiev
