Jackson Community Concert Report

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Picture Perfect Last Sunday evening I attended the Jackson Community Concert Band entitled the “Picture Perfect.” This concert was very different from a normal concert. Instead of just having the orchestra playing music, this concert had visual images incorporated with the auditory aspect of it. The concert presented the art and music together as one. The images came out of one of the most famous art museums in the world, the Louvre in Paris. The music came from the museum and the amazing art it has. Norman Dello Joio wrote the music that was incorporated into the museum for people to listen to in 1966. The concert consisted of four parts that were divided into two sections and an intermission in between. Before the concert even began each instrument player was practicing their instrument getting ready for the concert. The first section of the concert was the symphonic dances and the second section consisted of pictures of the art pieces from the Louvre. After …show more content…
The sixth scene elicits an image of two Jews, one being rich while the other poor, through the interplay of a rasping melody in the lower register and a chant like theme in the upper register. The seventh and the eighth movement of the piece contrast each other. The seventh movement, “The Market at Limoges,” has a cheerful and folksy manner; while the eighth movement, “The Catacombs,” portrays a strange shadow with baleful chords. The last two scenes of the piece are most talked about. “The Hut on Fowl’s Leg” portrays a nightmare as a goose named Baba-Yaga is looking for something to prey on. She charges—bounding in a virtuosic passage in octaves—right into the tenth and final picture, “The Great Gate of Kiev.” With a depiction of Hartmann’s sketch of a proposed city gate topped by cupolas in which carillons ring, Mussorgsky brings the piece to a majestic close