The Mimir Chamber Music Festival was held at PepsiCo Hall in Texas Christian University Fort Worth campus on July 7, 2011. The festival was held as a tradition because it has been taking place annually and each time there is a performance, the performance standard is set higher than the previous. This year’s edition was not different as it attracted a packed house which is a general attest of the kind of reputation the performers have accorded the audience.
Artists who availed themselves included Walton and Haydon as well as Taylor. The performance was given enough space and was a combination of the faculty recitals from the artists who had trained for two weeks just to perfect their skills. All the performers were well prepared and from the general outlook, they promised to thrill the audience. They did not contradict that expectation even a single shred and when they were set with their instruments, everyone was eager to be entertained.
Objective of the Performance. The String Quartet was the opening performance and was played in F minor and the way they combined with OP. 20 no. 5 made this performance one of its kind. Any audience would have been tempted to think that they had practiced longer than the two weeks they actually had of extensive training.
It was Iwasaki who started it all with the sound of the violin capturing the attention of everybody followed by Thompson with more noticeable and brilliant sound. However, the effect that was brought out by the music and the sound was not as appealing or striking as the first sound. It can be said that this effect was brought about by leaning a lot towards the careful side even though the performance was strong enough to be termed excellent.
Walton and Haydon brought in three major characteristics of the music which eventually defined the performance of the night. The three characteristics were the dynamics, intonation and ensemble where the intonation was brought about by the string quartet playing, the dynamics brought by the careful modulation and the ensemble bringing in a complete experience in music that is suitable for parents and children.
Kirsten Docter brought in humdrum and through the use of her dark, luscious and rich sound, she gave excellent results in her music. During the second performance by Brant Taylor he impressed the crowd by using the Rachmaninoff ripe. Romantic Sonata for cello and the piano played in G minor and Op. 19. He was to be joined by Allessio Brax, a pianist and together, they gave a powerful collaboration especially with their realistic approach to the music.
Subjective Description of the Music. Even as I Came out of the hall, I was sure that I had the best performance of the century and I was actually looking forward to future performances perhaps with the same performers. The music was thrilling and what was striking most was how the different performers could come together to do a combination without making a single mistake in their performance.
The performers had a good mastery on the usage of the instruments at hand like violin and piano and each performer was able to bring in a good difference in music to the audience. That is why the performance can best be described as one which was arranged to thrill right from the start to the end.
This music festival is praised especially due to the fact that it made to bring in liveliness and appreciation drawn from the three highlighted characteristics namely ensemble, intonation and dynamics. Anytime a performer would take the front seat, I was sure that I was to get a good but different experience and this always made me to look forward to having the next performer come on stage.
As noted earlier, the group of performers who had practiced for two weeks preparing for this performance really had a mind of entertaining. Each time there would be a combination of two or more performers, one would get a sense that they knew each other for long.
For instance, a combination of violin and piano would bring in a sense that the artists had practiced together for a long period. That is why they were able to perform in harmony where if there was differentiation of the key used, one would feel that the two were marrying each other well.
Conclusion
When at Any time one decides to attend a concert of any kind, the expectations are always high. For example, if one is to attend a music concert, the expectations are that it would be a night of positive thrilling. However, it is also expected that a performance may not always yield to the expectations of the audience.
This paper describes the objective and subjective analysis of what happened at a music concert that I attended which was thrilled by the Mimir Chamber group which took after the name of the music festival. The description focused on the details that could be gotten from the music performance such as kind of rhythm that was brought by the music and the general experience.