How To Write An Essay About My First Puc Concert

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My experience, while I was at the concert, was very interesting since this was the very first PUC concert I have attended. This concert followed all the same principles as a normal concert, besides the fact that it was not formal. Talking about the pieces, Johnathan Cook’s first piece was Etude-tableaux OP 39, No. 5 in E flat minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff and encompassing the change in tone of the song very well. Since this song is in E flat minor, the tone, I took from the song, was lightly somber, while in some instances, were cheerful. There were parts of the song that made me feel as if I was heading somewhere in a dramatic fashion. This was expressed by the descend in chromatic scale that made me feel as if I was walking down a flight of …show more content…
At the end, I felt as if I completed a full circle from the song. The third song played was Ballade No. 4 in F minor by Fredric Chopin played by Johnathan Cook. This song made me feel, at first, very happy and peaceful, but then it changed into portions that were slightly eerie in the fact that something bad was happening slowly. I particularly was drawn to this piece since I do enjoy Chopin because my favorite piece Waltz in A minor, is by him. The music, itself, was quite moving in the fact that you can tell feel the melodic swaying back and forth that the song portrayed. The fourth song, Prelude from Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829 by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Elena Casanova was a very cheery song, in comparison to the last three pieces. It gave me the emotion that I was rushed going somewhere. It resembled that of a Charlie Chaplin movie in which he was rushed to do something and trying to do multiple things at one time and towards the end you can see all of the things he was trying to accomplish finished and he is resting. This song made me feel quite

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