Introduction
The article is titled Mozart: Don Giovanni. The concert took place in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 23 January 2012. The journal is referred to as The Royal Opera and has been written by Kory. The author has organized the paragraphs based on the subjects being discussed. She has started by describing the settings of the concert. In this regard, she describes the hall as well as organized with the performance stage set with a variety of instruments such as stage bands. She goes ahead to explain that the hall was fully packed with an audience who inquisitively waited for the play to be staged. She describes the stage as looking magical with sprinkles of colorful lights. In addition, the author has dedicated some paragraphs to the description of the looks of the performance. In this regard, she says that the performers who looked fabulous with black and white suits rounded up with a variety of musical attires rocked the hall and kept the audience anticipating the show (Kory par 2).
Objective description of the music
Undoubtedly, the article has given an excellent image of the overall surroundings and quality of the concert. This is evident in the way she gives a practical and detailed description of the events at the concert. As such, she demonstrates that the instruments comprised of a high pitched sounding consonance which was set at a peaceful mood in the introductory stage of the song. She adds that the instruments spiced up the melody of the song in a lovely manner. The authors’ perfect description of the concert environment is made more interesting by the manner in which she coherently demonstrated the real performance (Kory par 3).
At some point, she says that, as the song advanced, the bands took the center stage, raising the texture as the other instrument accompanied it. She added that the steady rhythm seemed to start getting higher and higher till the peak of the song and that at that particular moment, the song dynamics started getting louder letting all the instruments to converge at the peak with a round pound, only to revert to a moderate level and finally into conclusion. Ideally, this makes the readers of the reviews feel like they were present during the performance. More importantly, the readers of the reviews cannot fail to acknowledge the superior quality in which the concert was staged. She makes it a perfectly interesting experience that lovers of concerts would not want to miss (Kory par 5).
Conclusion
If I were to review the concert, I would use a variety of techniques and ideas that makes the reader identify with the concert just like those who attended it. In this regard, I would not fail to mention the voice and tonal variations that rules the concert from the start to the end. Furthermore, I would mention whether the rhythm was flexible, or whether it had varied patterns. My reviews cannot be complete without mentioning notes and rhythmic variations. I would wish for instance to mention whether, at times, specific patterns of notes changed gradually, suddenly, or unexpectedly. I would also describe whether parts of the song were homophonic, but as the rhythm transcended, the instruments used transformed the song to a polyphonic texture. In other words, I will describe whether notes are started in a simpler and homophonic manner, only to turn into a complex and polyphonic texture, with a mixture of orchestration. Generally, I will try to make my reviews captivating enough to get the admiration of the readers.
Work Cited
Kory, Agnes. “The new source for concert and opera reviews, articles and interviews on the web” Mozart:Don Giovanni. Mozart: Don Giovanni, 2012. Web.