20/20 At Millard
Melissa Knorr
Issue date: 10/18/07 Section: Entertainment
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Sunday Oct. 14, Performance 20/20 gave a concert in Millard Auditorium. This group of performers is the best the Hartt School has to offer. The expectation of this concert was that the level of music and performing would be on another level. The pieces in this concert and the performers were in fact on another level. Sunday was an opportunity to hear professional quality performances for free. The concert opened with Brahms Hungarian Dances for Piano Four-Hands. Yu Chen Shih and Krystian Tkaczewski demonstrated incredible communication and emotion throughout their performance. The piece was mesmerizing and puts the audience into another world. For these few people, it seems that the aim of performing is to communicate emotion to the audience. Very few students can perform at this level, but that is part of what sets these students apart.
Performance 20/20 also does music that is more difficult than the average ensemble piece. They do a lot of more modern music. Sometimes, 20 century music is difficult for audiences to receive and enjoy. Listening to 20 century music does not usually have a calming affect on people. The first glimpse of modern music in this concert was A Pink Lit Phase. The Pepto-Bismol pink dresses worn by Alisa Willis, flute, and Annabelle Taubl, harp, were a little distracting, but added to the mood of the piece. This piece was clearly technically challenging for the performers and featured a beautiful solo by Dan Byre on the viola. Most people find comfort in music because a part of it they can understand. Pieces by Hindemith are difficult for the average person to understand, which is why they are received poorly in some audiences. In this concert, a group performed the Hindemith Kammermusik No. 1, Op. 24. At first this piece seems sinister and intense. The third movement was extremely beautiful in an odd way. It wasn't the sort of piece that you play for a five-year-old before bed, but something that seemed almost other worldly. While the audience may not have liked the piece, they can certainly appreciate the level of difficulty and intensity achieved through the group.
Overall, the concert was a mixture of emotions. Awe, intensity, unease, peace and joy were just a few of the emotions shared by the entire audience. A group of performers that can invoke these emotions in one night in just a few hours deserves to be recognized. The best that Hartt has to offer in performing is some of the best classical music the state has to offer.
Each performer in 20/20 engaged the audience and communicated emotions through their performances, and by doing this achieved what every musician works toward.
These talented musicians performed very well. It was an incredible and inspirational experience. It was an amazing display of passion and the hard work of thet performers really showed throughout the performance.
Performance 20/20 also does music that is more difficult than the average ensemble piece. They do a lot of more modern music. Sometimes, 20 century music is difficult for audiences to receive and enjoy. Listening to 20 century music does not usually have a calming affect on people. The first glimpse of modern music in this concert was A Pink Lit Phase. The Pepto-Bismol pink dresses worn by Alisa Willis, flute, and Annabelle Taubl, harp, were a little distracting, but added to the mood of the piece. This piece was clearly technically challenging for the performers and featured a beautiful solo by Dan Byre on the viola. Most people find comfort in music because a part of it they can understand. Pieces by Hindemith are difficult for the average person to understand, which is why they are received poorly in some audiences. In this concert, a group performed the Hindemith Kammermusik No. 1, Op. 24. At first this piece seems sinister and intense. The third movement was extremely beautiful in an odd way. It wasn't the sort of piece that you play for a five-year-old before bed, but something that seemed almost other worldly. While the audience may not have liked the piece, they can certainly appreciate the level of difficulty and intensity achieved through the group.
Overall, the concert was a mixture of emotions. Awe, intensity, unease, peace and joy were just a few of the emotions shared by the entire audience. A group of performers that can invoke these emotions in one night in just a few hours deserves to be recognized. The best that Hartt has to offer in performing is some of the best classical music the state has to offer.
Each performer in 20/20 engaged the audience and communicated emotions through their performances, and by doing this achieved what every musician works toward.
These talented musicians performed very well. It was an incredible and inspirational experience. It was an amazing display of passion and the hard work of thet performers really showed throughout the performance.
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