On Sunday October 11, 2015, I attended the Regina Musical Club’s, Trio concertante at the University of Regina. The concert was performed by 3 musicians, Nancy Dahn who played the violin, Simon Fryer who played the cello, and Tim Steeves who played the piano. The concert was made up of three pieces. The first one was Beethoven’s Piano trio in G major Op.1 No.2 which was published in 1795. The second was Fryderyk’s Chopin’s, Chopin in G minor Op.8 which was written and published in 1829. And lastly Antonin Dvorak’s, Dvorak Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 90 “Dumky” which was written in 1891.
The genre of these pieces were classical.
The concert, was pretty good in the sense that everything went as planned. No one screwed up, and the musicians played …show more content…
For example, she played with perfect volume and messed with dynamics where it was needed, which made the room feel some type of way. At times she would go really fast, staccato like the all of a sudden switch the rhythm to really slow. The cello player on the other hand seemed pretty distant, at times when he was not playing he would just stare at the crowd the play again. That kind of put me off because he didn't have that intensity that Nancy and Tim had when they played. He did a lot of harmonizing with the violin and when he did it was really slow. Tim the pianist was great. He had a workout playing the piano, I'm sure he looked forward to the intermission as much as i …show more content…
When i looked at the program i thought that i would be more intrigued because i would want to find some of the pieces they played, and maybe call out where they missed a beat or something. I thought I would be pretty solid on the Beethoven pieces. Sadly I did not know one piece they played. Also, it seemed like one hour would pass, until we could clap and i didn't really like that. I think that’s another reason they lost my attention, it was just too long, and soon, everything started to sound like one piece. It left me hungry and wanting to go home and crawl into bed.
They're presentation made me laugh at times though. The piano player looked like he was going to bang the keys into the piano and the Nancy seemed like she was going to start a fire, or dislocate her shoulder, because she was playing so fast.
The Chopin piano trio piece, Allegro con fuoco, had a very fast rhythm and combination dynamics, sometimes being loud and sometimes soft. The feel of the piece was very gloomy and sometimes scary. The Dvorak Piano Trio piece, Allegro, had a very low melody and the rhythm was very slow, though some parts were high, fast, and staccato like. The feel of the piece was also very gloomy.
Over all the best thing about the concert is that I got to sit in the upstairs seats, though my phone almost fell down into the main floor audience several times. The worst part about the concert was how boring it was, and that after it ended,
The genre of these pieces were classical.
The concert, was pretty good in the sense that everything went as planned. No one screwed up, and the musicians played …show more content…
For example, she played with perfect volume and messed with dynamics where it was needed, which made the room feel some type of way. At times she would go really fast, staccato like the all of a sudden switch the rhythm to really slow. The cello player on the other hand seemed pretty distant, at times when he was not playing he would just stare at the crowd the play again. That kind of put me off because he didn't have that intensity that Nancy and Tim had when they played. He did a lot of harmonizing with the violin and when he did it was really slow. Tim the pianist was great. He had a workout playing the piano, I'm sure he looked forward to the intermission as much as i …show more content…
When i looked at the program i thought that i would be more intrigued because i would want to find some of the pieces they played, and maybe call out where they missed a beat or something. I thought I would be pretty solid on the Beethoven pieces. Sadly I did not know one piece they played. Also, it seemed like one hour would pass, until we could clap and i didn't really like that. I think that’s another reason they lost my attention, it was just too long, and soon, everything started to sound like one piece. It left me hungry and wanting to go home and crawl into bed.
They're presentation made me laugh at times though. The piano player looked like he was going to bang the keys into the piano and the Nancy seemed like she was going to start a fire, or dislocate her shoulder, because she was playing so fast.
The Chopin piano trio piece, Allegro con fuoco, had a very fast rhythm and combination dynamics, sometimes being loud and sometimes soft. The feel of the piece was very gloomy and sometimes scary. The Dvorak Piano Trio piece, Allegro, had a very low melody and the rhythm was very slow, though some parts were high, fast, and staccato like. The feel of the piece was also very gloomy.
Over all the best thing about the concert is that I got to sit in the upstairs seats, though my phone almost fell down into the main floor audience several times. The worst part about the concert was how boring it was, and that after it ended,