Music Review
Saturday October 9, 2016; a friend and I walked into the CSM multimedia room prepared to listen a piano concert. I noticed that a majority of my peers at the concert were over the age of 55 and have been to one of the performer previous shows (which they stated during intermission). Brian Ganz started off by giving the audience a brief lesson about his history. Mr. Ganz is a jubilant and free spirited person; who love chopin (king of etudes) and only started playing piano at the age of 9 years old. He became a wonderful player by the help of his marvelous teachers and supportive parents.
Mr. Ganz started off a beautiful piece called, Three Nocturnes, Op. 9. I would consider this first piece as programed music, because it’s …show more content…
Ganz returned by to the piano and answered any questions. Then he proceeded to talk about the next piece and it 's called Twelve Etudes, Op 9 this whole would be categorised as absolute music. The first etude (No. 1 in C Major) he mentioned that his left hand will only high octaves and the right hand open arpeggios. You can hear it with the fast paced, repeat notes that are being played throughout. I want to say that its doctrine of affection because it 's keeping the same mood throughout the whole piece. No. 2 in A Major this one sound quite difficult to play, this one like the first had repeated notes and it also centro by gracefully getting higher in different parts of the song. No. 3 in E Minor; the amplitude in this piece was much softer than the other previously played pieces but I wasn 't able to pick up much from this piece because if the commotion that was going on (a baby fell and started crying). No. 4 in C-sharp minor was one that i liked, it was polyphonic, because it sounded like it was racing. No. 5 in - flat Major (“Black Keys”) all 8 fingers are being used and both thumbs. In this piece he was using his thumbs and his right hand had nothing black keys and it still sound polyphonic, because of how fast it was going, but it sounded happy. No. 6 in E-flat Minor sound strange, dark, sad, and is used for voicing exercises. This pieces had more of a soulful undertone. No.7 in C Major he mentioned that this piece help strengthen the bridges
Saturday October 9, 2016; a friend and I walked into the CSM multimedia room prepared to listen a piano concert. I noticed that a majority of my peers at the concert were over the age of 55 and have been to one of the performer previous shows (which they stated during intermission). Brian Ganz started off by giving the audience a brief lesson about his history. Mr. Ganz is a jubilant and free spirited person; who love chopin (king of etudes) and only started playing piano at the age of 9 years old. He became a wonderful player by the help of his marvelous teachers and supportive parents.
Mr. Ganz started off a beautiful piece called, Three Nocturnes, Op. 9. I would consider this first piece as programed music, because it’s …show more content…
Ganz returned by to the piano and answered any questions. Then he proceeded to talk about the next piece and it 's called Twelve Etudes, Op 9 this whole would be categorised as absolute music. The first etude (No. 1 in C Major) he mentioned that his left hand will only high octaves and the right hand open arpeggios. You can hear it with the fast paced, repeat notes that are being played throughout. I want to say that its doctrine of affection because it 's keeping the same mood throughout the whole piece. No. 2 in A Major this one sound quite difficult to play, this one like the first had repeated notes and it also centro by gracefully getting higher in different parts of the song. No. 3 in E Minor; the amplitude in this piece was much softer than the other previously played pieces but I wasn 't able to pick up much from this piece because if the commotion that was going on (a baby fell and started crying). No. 4 in C-sharp minor was one that i liked, it was polyphonic, because it sounded like it was racing. No. 5 in - flat Major (“Black Keys”) all 8 fingers are being used and both thumbs. In this piece he was using his thumbs and his right hand had nothing black keys and it still sound polyphonic, because of how fast it was going, but it sounded happy. No. 6 in E-flat Minor sound strange, dark, sad, and is used for voicing exercises. This pieces had more of a soulful undertone. No.7 in C Major he mentioned that this piece help strengthen the bridges