Symphony Orchestra Concert Report Sample

I attended the Symphony Orchestra Concert on March 10, 2017 at 7:30 PM in the SJSU Music Concert Hall. It was conducted by Yair Samet, and featured a solo performance by Dr. Sarah Jones. The SJSU Symphony Orchestra performed Mozart’s Impresario Overture, his Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C Major. The piece that I will be focusing on is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, particularly the fourth movement. During the actual concert, it was very interesting hearing the fourth movement, as we had been focusing on it so much in class. Hearing it live was a significantly different experience. The whole symphony was in front of me, and I could feel the air moving as their instruments sounded together to produce the melodies that Beethoven himself wrote out. It was very familiar hearing the slowly ascending scale at the beginning of the fourth movement, but also very different. It was unlike any time I had listened to the fourth movement. When listening to the movement through headphones or speakers, it seems rather dull for me. It just sounds like typical “classical music.” On the other hand, listening to the piece performed live was a completely different experience, I was able to hear the double-basses and the percussion clearly, which I could not in the recordings. There was much more depth …show more content…
The last time I was able to see a classical music concert was when I was still young, so I did not have a deep understanding of what was going on and what I was hearing. But as I have grown personally as a musician, and through the knowledge that I gained through this class, I was able to experience the concert in its fullness. For as small as the symphony was, the performance itself was enjoyable, and the fact that there was not a huge amount of people there made attending a much more comfortable and enjoyable experience. I will definitely be attending more concerts here in my free