Fry Street Band Concert Report

This last Tuesday, September 20th the Fry Street Quartet performed at the Caine Performance Hall. I was in attendance at this even and my feelings about it are varied. I chose this performance for a few reasons, first was that despite it not really fitting into the rock or pop categories whatsoever I was curious to see if any type of message could be spread by a quartet playing classical music. It is a different type of music for the subject and as the performance went on it became clear it was a great fit for the material.
To address the basics of the concert its intended audience was really just about anyone. Mostly students were in the audience there for assignments of some sort. However, there were many others from family to fans of the quartet to people there just for the music. I felt for the most part like I belonged in such an audience, though I may have been a tad underdressed as many of the older attendees had dressed nicer than a simple t-shirt and jeans.
Starting the performance there were no formal introductions the quartet walked onstage and began performing String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76 no. 5 …show more content…
String Quartet No. 5 written by Bela Bartok, part of a full set of 6 stands alone as a complete piece of music. Described in length by the performers as an almost flawless piece of music, they are clear fans of Bartok and the nuance to his work. This piece begins it is first quick moving between notes just as fast as the performers can go. Then it moves to a period of lengthy notes which draw on. The song moves through periods of great stillness and great movement. It has a horror like tune just as well with the rapid notes building an eeriness in the music for the first half of the thirty-minute piece. As the song nears it ends it tones down the eeriness a bit and moves to a more typical classical sound before ending on a