The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus presented a beautiful concert called Christmas Pops. The concert had sing-along carols to sacred choruses, this is a must see concert for anyone wanting to enjoy the perfect holiday season music. Throughout the concert, pieces from different musical eras were played from baroque period to the classical period to present day. By being able to hear multiple pieces from different eras all combined into one concert was an amazing experience just because I was able to see how music has impacted the world throughout the decades. Music is one of the most unique performing arts due to the way it has evolved. Styles and melodies considered unfit in one era are displayed prominently in another. This concert
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This could be, because of how Handel wrote the piece. In the Hallelujah Chorus, we hear shifting textures in which the voices and text overlap and then come together to clearly declaim the text.114 Handel’s extraordinary ability to combine tuneful melodies and intriguing textures with striking homorhythmic passages is most evident in the beloved chorus.115 Until I heard this piece live, I never really understood how the writing style and words could be so impacting but this piece displays that. On the other hand, when I heard “Waltz of the Flower,” it was a very energetic piece. As soon as the piece started, it automatically brought Christmas to my mind. The uplifting and dynamic melody kept me intrigued with the performance the whole time. Even though both of these performances left lasting impressions, they did it in different ways; one with words and one with the style; this is just another one of the ways that the composers from the baroque era differed with the classical era.
• 114 and 115 The Enjoyment of Music; Kristine Forney, Professor of Music, California State University, Long Beach: Dell ‘Antonio, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, University of Texas at Austin, Joseph Machlis, Late of Queens College of the City University of New York. Essential listening, second
This could be, because of how Handel wrote the piece. In the Hallelujah Chorus, we hear shifting textures in which the voices and text overlap and then come together to clearly declaim the text.114 Handel’s extraordinary ability to combine tuneful melodies and intriguing textures with striking homorhythmic passages is most evident in the beloved chorus.115 Until I heard this piece live, I never really understood how the writing style and words could be so impacting but this piece displays that. On the other hand, when I heard “Waltz of the Flower,” it was a very energetic piece. As soon as the piece started, it automatically brought Christmas to my mind. The uplifting and dynamic melody kept me intrigued with the performance the whole time. Even though both of these performances left lasting impressions, they did it in different ways; one with words and one with the style; this is just another one of the ways that the composers from the baroque era differed with the classical era.
• 114 and 115 The Enjoyment of Music; Kristine Forney, Professor of Music, California State University, Long Beach: Dell ‘Antonio, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, University of Texas at Austin, Joseph Machlis, Late of Queens College of the City University of New York. Essential listening, second